...to help other women who wanted to abandon this too, but I didn’t know how.” “Then Tostan came to my village, and together we studied different human rights that we...
...they have to deal with every day. I was surprised to find that the girl herself was only told this life-affecting story a week ago. The topic is such a...
In 2010, two British survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) and I started a charity called Daughters of Eve in order to mainstream the issue and change how it is addressed. FGM has been a criminal offence in the UK since …
Defending any form of gender-based violence (GBV) on the basis of tradition, culture or religion is no longer an option. Certainly, this is one of the strongest messages to emerge from this year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) …
...to have been in the room in New York yesterday, to be one of the first to hear this news. This year's CSW is not set up to be easy,...
Today is Human Rights day and the last of 16 days of activism to end violence against women. Around 140 million women are living with the effects of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). In Africa alone, there are around three million …
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